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These are the three Terry Lectures delivered by Dr. Jung at Yale University in 1937, dealing respectively with The Anatomy of the Unconscious Mind, Dogma and Natural Symbols, The History and Psychology of a Natural Symbol, which, with notes makes a volume of 131 small octavo pages.
Psychoanalytic readers need little introduction to Jung's work. They know of his early training with Bleuler at Burghölzli and his active participation in the Freudian movement and notably his ‘Dementia Praecox’ monograph. Then of the difficulties that arose within the International Psychoanalytic Society and finally Jung's schismatic split from the initiator and trainer of his psychological foundations.
The blood son of a supernaturalist and the foster son of a naturalist, for reasons which have little place, even if speculative, in a book review, he returned to theism and has sought to give it the support that he believes to have found in his abstractions of the collective unconscious and the archtypes.
Religious phenomena, as is widely believed, are universal and coterminous with humanity. They are worthy of psychological investigation and understanding and he here would emphasize that his approach will be empirical and scientific rather than metaphysical and philosophical.
Hence the opening lecture on the objectivity as well as the subjectivity that proceeds from unconscious processes, individual and, be it noted, ‘social’, and the ‘Complex’ and ‘Dreams’, with all of which our readers are well acquainted, as well as his constructions put upon the abstractions anima and animus, illustrated by the partial analysis of two dreams according to his own more or less a priori intuitive methodology.
This methodology is further elaborated in his Dogma and Natural Symbol second lecture, in which further and deeper consideration is given to unconscious structuralizations. Jung has termed them ‘arch-types’, taken over from older formulations and partly rechristened. Number symbolism, being used, gone i